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Savitsky Museum
The Savitsky Museum, the State Museum of Arts of Karakalpakstan in Nukus, Uzbekistan, was founded in 1966 by the artist and collector Igor Savitsky. Far from Moscow, he gathered tens of thousands of works, including Russian and Central Asian avant-garde paintings banned under Stalin, together with Karakalpak folk art. It holds one of the largest collections of Soviet avant-garde art in the world.
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